Problems with PROMISE Card in Linux

[Paul King]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 22:41, Anton Markov wrote:
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> Paul King wrote:
> | Any idea what file under /dev/ this relates to, or how I can find out? I
> | don't think this is a raid card (raidtools can't seem to detect anything
> | under /dev/sd<whatever>), and the box it came in says that it is just an
> | IDE adapter card.
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> Try looking under /proc/ide/ to see information about all your IDE
> devices and what nodes in /dev they belong to. Also, do 'dmesg | grep -i
> promise' to see what the kernel has to say when it finds the device.
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dmesg gives nothing, although grepping for "PCI" gives, among other things:
     VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21 
(/proc/ide gave the promise card as being on Bus 0). As for looking under /proc/ide,
that has already been tried. There are four devices under there: hda, hdb, hdc, and hdd.
Those four are for my two hard disks and two CD units mounted on the motherboard 
interfaces. I just verified that by looking at /proc/ide/hd[abcd]/model. The Promise card 
is for a fifth drive. For what it's worth, I can show you part of dmesg:

VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686b (rev 40) IDE UDMA100 controller on pci00:04.1
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: MAXTOR 6L040L2, ATA DISK drive
hdb: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
hdc: AOPEN 16XDVD-ROM/AMH 20011108, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=77557/16/63
hdb: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1819KiB Cache, CHS=77557/16/63

Not much luck in dmesg, but I see it's listed under /proc/ioports:

7800-780f : Promise Technology, Inc. 20269
8000-8003 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20269
8400-8407 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20269
8800-8803 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20269
9000-9007 : Promise Technology, Inc. 20269

and /proc/iomem:

ce800000-ce803fff : Promise Technology, Inc. 20269

That's what I see under /proc, fwiw.

Paul King

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